EBSCO databases: ·MAS Ultra School Edition: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
·Essays and General Literature Index:Essays& General Literature Indexis a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Essay & General Literature Index provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections, with coverage dating as far back as 1985.
·MasterFILE Premier:MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,650 titles
·Professional Development Collection:Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
·Teacher Reference Center: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
ERIC:ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. Something lots of folks find confusing is the content. It is a collection of information about resources on education topics, including:
Journal articles, which have EJ in front of the accession number
ERIC documents, which have numbers beginning ED. These include government publications, conference proceedings, book chapters, and many more types of resources.
You may have used the free version of this database available on the web. We recommend the EBSCO version, because of the search features and logical organization. This library supported version also provides links to other databases where you will find full-text for many articles and documents you need. oERIC access three different ways oERIC Tutorial via Oswego State University of New York
JSTOR : JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.Content covered within JSTOR can be found here.To view the Collections found within JSTOR, click here.
A JSTOR tutorial is also available---including a quiz at the end!
Kraus Curriculum Development LibraryThis searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
ProQuest
·Research Library:ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,050 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Project MUSE: Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
Social Sciences via CSA Illumina : ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the pre-eminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest® and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems; Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources; UMI® microform and print reference products; eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGramsTM educational resources.
Subject searching uses a controlled vocabulary--terms that are pre-selected by the database provider. (Think of how you search the telephone book "yellow pages." The phone company provides the terms you search.) The results of a database subject search are more precise than a free-text search because you are using the terms chosen by the provider as important or expert terms describing the topic.
Keyword searching allows you to select your own terms to search. It also allows you to develop a strategy that will combine search terms and that uses special truncation symbols as wildcards (* or !) in your searches. To combine unique ideas into one search, use and, or, not (or and not) in your strategy. These logical (or Boolean) connectors narrow or broaden your search to help you focus on your topic.
For a visual example of Boolean searching, please leap here.
Each database includes "Help" screens. Use these to develop searches that work! (Some of the "Help" screens also give you information to cite the sources you use in your research.)
Each database also includes commands unique to that database. Use these--rather than the browser commands on your system. Certain database commands help you print more easily or move from screen to screen, page to page in a simple way.
for the sources you think will be useful. Include the title of sources, the author, and publications information. Answer questions about the information found:
From what database provider did you find the information you are saving?
Which database are you using?
What search terms are successful?
What related terms or ideas do you find useful?
Is the item available electronically in full-text?
On what date are you viewing the article?
If the article is not full-text online, does the library keep the title in the collection?
Should you request the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)?
EBSCO databases:
· MAS Ultra School Edition: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 440,207 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
· Essays and General Literature Index: Essays & General Literature Index is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Essay & General Literature Index provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections, with coverage dating as far back as 1985.
· MasterFILE Premier: MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,650 titles
· Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
· Teacher Reference Center: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
ERIC: ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC. Something lots of folks find confusing is the content. It is a collection of information about resources on education topics, including:
You may have used the free version of this database available on the web. We recommend the EBSCO version, because of the search features and logical organization. This library supported version also provides links to other databases where you will find full-text for many articles and documents you need.
o ERIC access three different ways
o ERIC Tutorial via Oswego State University of New York
Online Tutorials for all EBSCO databases:
o EBSCO Tutorial Online
o Creating Search Alerts Tutorial
o Advanced Search Tutorial
o Creating a Personalized Folder
o Citation Styles Available
JSTOR : JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. Content covered within JSTOR can be found here. To view the Collections found within JSTOR, click here.
A JSTOR tutorial is also available---including a quiz at the end!
Kraus Curriculum Development Library This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
ProQuest
· Research Library: ProQuest Research Library™ provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,050 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
o Search Publications in ProQuest’s Research Library
o Search the Research Library’s Research Modules
o Online Training Courses and Webinars
Project MUSE: Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.
· Project MUSE journals by Discipline
· Browse by Subject Headings
· Create an RSS Feed to Project MUSE journal articles
· Bookmark and share Project MUSE articles
· Receive email alerts of journals added
Social Sciences via CSA Illumina : ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the pre-eminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest® and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems; Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources; UMI® microform and print reference products; eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGramsTM educational resources.
· Online tutorial for CSA Illumina
· Advanced search tutorial for CSA Illumina
· Command Search tutorial for CSA Illumina (7 min.)
· Create a shortcut to Social Sciences on your desktop
· Discovery Guides to CSA Illumina
SEARCH Tips:
Subject searching uses a controlled vocabulary--terms that are pre-selected by the database provider. (Think of how you search the telephone book "yellow pages." The phone company provides the terms you search.) The results of a database subject search are more precise than a free-text search because you are using the terms chosen by the provider as important or expert terms describing the topic.
Keyword searching allows you to select your own terms to search. It also allows you to develop a strategy that will combine search terms and that uses special truncation symbols as wildcards (* or !) in your searches. To combine unique ideas into one search, use and, or, not (or and not) in your strategy. These logical (or Boolean) connectors narrow or broaden your search to help you focus on your topic.
For a visual example of Boolean searching, please leap here.
Each database includes "Help" screens. Use these to develop searches that work! (Some of the "Help" screens also give you information to cite the sources you use in your research.)
Each database also includes commands unique to that database. Use these--rather than the browser commands on your system. Certain database commands help you print more easily or move from screen to screen, page to page in a simple way.
Keep a